I have my doubts about The Conduit's first sales

[Zucas]

RaptorGTA said:

Zucas said:
Yea I'm sure the one thing holding The Conduit being back is local multiplayer. Get over it people... there isn't some large cult out there only buying games because of local multiplayer.

The Conduit will probably do decent but the main thing holding it back is it is a new IP. Thus it has to go purely off hype and marketing. Even though marketing is good, that doesn't guarantee it to be a success. I don't think this game will take off like we would wish it to because I'm just not seeing the hype behind it completely yet.

very much agree...except with the hype thing. Madworld had some big hype and look what happened. Maybe it having some hype is better...allows itself to get into a decent amount of households..and then word of mouth and internet talk give it nice legs for several months.

Well legitimate hype.  Internet hype is not hype... just the few overexploding it.  Killzone 2 is a perfect example of that.  The Conduit may have some legitimate internet hype but nothing really past that.  Game is going to need a huge marketing campaign.  Luckily they have been showing it off religiously at every major event and even have Ninty giving it some time and marketing.  So hopefully around launch they will have a good marketing campaign both online and on television and within stores.  Hopefully it'll pay off for them.